BOOKS BRIEFLY
BOOKS BRIEFLY Man's Most Dangerous Myth: the fallacy of race, by M. F. Ashley Montagu (Harper. 362 pp. $5). The fact that this book has appeared again in this third and considerably...
...MORDECAI W. JOHNSON is president of Howard University...
...Montagu recognizes that simply knowing the facts will not bring about the abolition of culturally and emotionally ingrained prejudice...
...3.50...
...3.50...
...from 1917 to 1939 (not 1781-1947 as stated), a young scholar takes vigorous issue with these policies...
...He is the kind of writer from whom we can learn much...
...The result is that, although the author is distinctly not a Communist, the book oversimplifies the tragic complexities involved no less than does the anti-Soviet extreme...
...320 pp...
...American-Russian Relations, 1781-1947, by William Appleman Williams (Rinehart...
...Montagu here examines the concept of race from different angles to show that many of the commonly held ideas about the differentiation among peoples are without foundation in science...
...Last autumn a paper-bound collection of 21 Stevenson speeches had an enthusiastic reception...
...Today this is particularly laudable...
...367 pp...
...The fact that this book has appeared again in this third and considerably enlarged edition is in itself a highly encouraging sign in times when it is becoming increasingly clear that we can no longer afford racial prejudice...
...It is remarkable that many of the speeches are almost as vivid to the eye as they were to the ear and that they sound timely instead of dated...
...Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and /or democratic socialism, as I understand it...
...statements and private papers of key American figures...
...230 pp...
...This larger collection (51 speeches) in book form covers the major talks from Stevenson's welcome to the convention delegates through his election night statement...
...Unless there are some undiscovered papers, this is likely to be the last posthumous collection of Orwell's essays...
...Consistently, Russian-American Relations gives the benefit of the doubt not to the United States, as is currently the American fashion, but to the Soviet government...
...Without oversimplification and "popularizing," he has set forth the facts in a readable...
...The book is documented by previously unused THE REVIEWERS LEWIS LEARY is a professor of English at Columbia University...
...this can come about only by a change on the part of both teachers and parents "to teach humanity first and to regard all other education as subordinate to this...
...In a survey of American policies toward the U.S.S.R...
...his clear, simple, and forceful style is an object lesson in political writing...
...Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (Random House...
...HOMER . A. JACK, a Unitarian minister, edited "The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi...
...understandable fashion...
...ALFRED WERNER is well-known for his art criticism...
...his articles have appeared in Commentary and other publications...
...Such, Such Were the Joys, by George Orwell (Harcourt, Brace...
...BOYD C. SHAFER is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas...
Vol. 17 • June 1953 • No. 6
